Many teams have short daily gatherings — especially now that so many teams are fully distributed, it’s good for everyone to come together like that.
But while every team member talks about the difficult bugs they’re facing, sometimes the actual code tells a different story and can reveal that a team member is struggling to get working code together in any reasonable amount of time.
It sounds like you could just read their code and the meeting was unnecessary. Linux kernel developers are distributed but don't do daily status update meetings.
